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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War -
a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government -
It followed the Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain. -
the new Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum. -
The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
it was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act and the amendment of the Sugar Act. -
The Townshend Acts was a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to fund administration. -
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
The Act granted the Company the right to directly ship its tea to North America and the right to the duty-free export of tea from Britain -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest -
were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
The First Continental Congress was formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775 during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. -
Moores Creek National Battlefield is a battlefield managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The Patriots achieved a victory that solidified their control of North Carolina. -
The Declaration of Independence, headed The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the founding document of the United States. -
was the first move in a surprise attack organized by General George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, against Hessian forces -
marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans, significantly supported by the French, over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. -
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States on September 3, 1783